After a 64-year-old pensioner retweeted a meme of Green Economy Minister Robert Habeck, in which Habeck was described as an \u201cidiot,\u201d Bavarian police raided the man\u2019s house and arrested him. The crime has even been recorded as a \u201cpolitically motivated right-wing crime.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The man is accused of distributing a photo of Habeck via retweet, where Habeck is described as an \u201cidiot.\u201d The Bamberg prosecutor\u2019s office indicates that this constitutes a federal criminal offense of \u201chatred.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAt a time that cannot currently be specified in more detail in the days or weeks before June 20, 2024, the accused published an image file using the account that shows a portrait of Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck with the title \u2018Schwachkopf PROFESSIONAL\u2019, based on the advertising campaign of the Schwarzkopf company, in order to generally defame Robert Habeck and to make it more difficult for him to work as a member of the federal government,\u201d read the prosecutor\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Schwachkopf generally means \u201cidiot,\u201d in German.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The rival Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has reposted the meme on X, writing in a statement: <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The person who was arrested told the NIUS news outlet<\/a> that he could never have imagined \u201cthat it would come to this.\u201d This has \u201cdefinitely GDR flavor,\u201d he said, referring to communist East Germany and its Stasi police force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nius also reports that \u201ccriminal police officers were deployed across Germany on Tuesday for the day of action against hate postings, warning social media users their homes would be searched and electronic devices confiscated. In over 90 investigations, more than 50 homes were searched, and there were 127 police actions in total.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen the police are at the door, every perpetrator realizes that hate crimes have consequences,\u201d Interior Minister Faeser wrote on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fast 130 Polizei-Ma\u00dfnahmen gegen Judenhass heute sind genau das harte Vorgehen, das wir brauchen. Wenn die Polizei vor der T\u00fcr steht, wird jedem T\u00e4ter klar, dass Hasskriminalit\u00e4t Konsequenzen hat.#AktionstaggegenHasspostings<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/zU6s2MFN7F<\/a> \u2014 Nancy Faeser (@NancyFaeser) November 12, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Those who criticize the Green party in Bavaria have faced prosecution before. A businessman, Michael Much<\/a>, put up posters mocking members of the federal government, including Habeck and then Green party leader Ricarda Lang. He also had his house searched and the posters confiscated. The prosecutor was defeated in court, which determined the posters were a legitimate form of freedom of expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Notably, last week, X owner Elon Musk called German Chancellor Olaf Scholz a \u201cfool,<\/a>\u201d on his platform. In response, the federal government reacted that \u201con X, you have Narrenfreiheit.\u201d The term refers to freedom to mock the king, typically reserved for a jester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scholz himself responded that it was \u201cnot very friendly,\u201d saying that web companies are \u201cnot organs of state, so I did not even pay it any attention.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Apparently, for those lower on the food chain, such insults result in a massive police raid. The man\u2019s phones were seized and all his rooms were searched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Users have been acting with incredulity on social media, with one writing: \u201cFirst election campaign posters leaked,\u201d which showed police breaking down a door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Erste Wahlkampfplakate geleakt#Schwachkopf<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/JP4dTvnnzV<\/a> \u2014 Heinz van Eugen \u2660\ufe0f (@heinzvaneugen) November 13, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Remix News After a 64-year-old pensioner retweeted a meme of Green Economy Minister Robert Habeck, in which Habeck was described as an \u201cidiot,\u201d Bavarian police raided the man\u2019s house and arrested him. 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\u201cWhile Habeck presents himself as a \u2018people-friendly\u2019 candidate for chancellor, his critics are being relentlessly pursued. They do not shy away from conducting house searches on sleeping families just because the father of the family shared this Schwachkopf graphic. This is what would happen to Germany under a Chancellor Habeck: the complete restriction of freedom of expression by a children\u2019s book author who displayed maximum incompetence for three and a half years, but still feels called to greater things,\u201d wrote<\/a> the AfD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/Screenshot-2024-11-14-at-1.02.28%20PM-706x1024.png?resize=706%2C1024&ssl=1\")
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![<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe person who was arrested told the NIUS news outlet<\/a> that he could never have imagined \u201cthat it would come to this.\u201d This has \u201cdefinitely GDR flavor,\u201d he said, referring to communist East Germany and its Stasi police force.<\/p>\n\n\n\nNius also reports that \u201ccriminal police officers were deployed across Germany on Tuesday for the day of action against hate postings, warning social media users their homes would be searched and electronic devices confiscated. In over 90 investigations, more than 50 homes were searched, and there were 127 police actions in total.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cWhen the police are at the door, every perpetrator realizes that hate crimes have consequences,\u201d Interior Minister Faeser wrote on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nFast 130 Polizei-Ma\u00dfnahmen gegen Judenhass heute sind genau das harte Vorgehen, das wir brauchen. Wenn die Polizei vor der T\u00fcr steht, wird jedem T\u00e4ter klar, dass Hasskriminalit\u00e4t Konsequenzen hat.#AktionstaggegenHasspostings<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/zU6s2MFN7F<\/a> \u2014 Nancy Faeser (@NancyFaeser) November 12, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nThose who criticize the Green party in Bavaria have faced prosecution before. A businessman, Michael Much<\/a>, put up posters mocking members of the federal government, including Habeck and then Green party leader Ricarda Lang. He also had his house searched and the posters confiscated. The prosecutor was defeated in court, which determined the posters were a legitimate form of freedom of expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\nNotably, last week, X owner Elon Musk called German Chancellor Olaf Scholz a \u201cfool,<\/a>\u201d on his platform. In response, the federal government reacted that \u201con X, you have Narrenfreiheit.\u201d The term refers to freedom to mock the king, typically reserved for a jester.<\/p>\n\n\n\nScholz himself responded that it was \u201cnot very friendly,\u201d saying that web companies are \u201cnot organs of state, so I did not even pay it any attention.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nApparently, for those lower on the food chain, such insults result in a massive police raid. The man\u2019s phones were seized and all his rooms were searched.<\/p>\n\n\n\nUsers have been acting with incredulity on social media, with one writing: \u201cFirst election campaign posters leaked,\u201d which showed police breaking down a door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nErste Wahlkampfplakate geleakt#Schwachkopf<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/JP4dTvnnzV<\/a> \u2014 Heinz van Eugen \u2660\ufe0f (@heinzvaneugen) November 13, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Remix News After a 64-year-old pensioner retweeted a meme of Green Economy Minister Robert Habeck, in which Habeck was described as an \u201cidiot,\u201d Bavarian police raided the man\u2019s house and arrested him. The crime has even been recorded as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Screenshot-2024-11-14-at-1.02.28%20PM-706x1024.png?itok=7yO_2bwA\"){kind=link}